Senior Quality Engineer

Leonardo DRS, Inc.•West Plains, MO

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Leonardo DRS Land Systems business is a recognized leader in the design and integration of complex technologies into new and legacy systems and platforms for global military and commercial customers. We are a 6 year running Top Workplace in the Greater St. Louis area. This role is responsible for developing program or project quality system processes and supporting product quality improvements. The Senior Quality Engineer will lead efforts to develop, maintain, and deploy quality plans and activities that translate customer requirements into planned activities. This position requires the ability to lead a group of engineers, technicians, and inspectors on customer programs or projects to achieve quality goals and milestones, and to drive process and product improvement initiatives across multiple functional disciplines. The role involves performing analyses of program requirements, preparing responsive quality plans, procedures, schedules, and resource allocations, and reviewing/approving engineering/test and contractor documentation. The Senior Quality Engineer will develop and implement formalized quality system processes, procedures, and work instructions, and lead efforts to gather, organize, monitor, analyze, and report on product and process information. Ongoing quality system support includes performing internal audits and ensuring the implementation of root cause corrective actions. The role also involves leading product quality improvement teams, Material Review Boards, and Failure Review Boards, evaluating and disposing of non-conforming material, and providing technical support for Assembly/Test/Inspection personnel. The Senior Quality Engineer will act as the main customer and senior management interface for resolving quality issues and driving root cause and corrective action. Additionally, the role includes developing and deploying SPC initiatives, evaluating and recommending critical supplier selections, driving supplier continuous improvement, leading customer quality program requirements, monitoring development activities for contract compliance, developing new procedural controls, generating statistical reports, and establishing programs to evaluate equipment precision and accuracy. The position is also responsible for the financial impacts of quality process controls and inspections and must support, communicate, reinforce, and defend the mission, values, and culture of the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field or equivalent experience
A minimum of 5 years of experience
Proficient technical expertise and application domain knowledge
Proficient in deploying and using Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools and analytics to predict failure trends and report quality ROI metrics to executives.
Proficient with ISO/AS9100 Standards, Six Sigma tools, statistics
Ability to understand military specifications and to read blueprints
Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, communication and writing skills
Ability to define problems and drive to root cause and effective corrective action
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Supplier Quality Engineering

Responsibilities

Developing program or project quality system processes and supporting product quality improvements
Leading the efforts to develop, maintain, and deploy quality plans and activities that translate customer requirements into planned activities
Leading a group of engineers, technicians, and inspectors
Leading groups of engineers on customer programs or projects to achieve quality goals and milestones
Driving process and product improvement initiatives across multiple functional disciplines
Performing analyses of program requirements and preparing responsive quality plans, procedures, schedules, and resource allocations to assure optimum quality support
Reviewing and approving engineering/test and contractor documentation and providing input to assure that appropriate quality requirements are addressed
Developing and implementing formalized quality system processes, procedures, and work instructions
Leading the efforts to gather, organize, monitor, analyze, and report on information on products and processes
Providing ongoing quality system support to include performing internal audits, ensuring implementation of root cause corrective actions
Leading product quality improvement teams, Material Review Boards, and Failure Review Board
Evaluating and disposing of non-conforming material
Providing technical support for Assembly/Test/Inspection personnel to include executing workmanship improvement plans, developing inspection methods and criteria, specifying appropriate sampling plans, interpreting and revising specifications, and processing non-conforming materials
Acting as main customer and senior management interface in resolving customer quality issues and driving root cause and corrective action on process and product quality issues
Developing and deploying SPC initiatives internally and at suppliers
Evaluating and making recommendations on critical supplier selections and driving supplier continuous improvement processes, including leading on-site audits, evaluating prototypes, and reviewing and approving of supplier corrective actions
Leading and executing customer quality program requirements
Monitoring development activities to assure contract compliance, as required
Developing new procedural controls to address all aspects of quality programs
Developing and generating statistical reports on inspection activities and results, new product or process testing results, etc., and recommending action as required
Establishing programs to evaluate the precision and accuracy of production and processing equipment and testing, measurement, and analytical facilities
Responsible for financial impacts of quality process controls and inspections
Supporting, communicating, reinforcing, and defending the mission, values, and culture of the organization
Attending appropriate customer, business, or program meetings
Preparing quality engineering reports and recommendations
Monitoring and mentoring junior quality engineers
Providing regular reporting of progress and status
Completion of assigned task on time and meeting technical requirements